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VOTING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application tiled April 23, 1902. Serial No. 104,421.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN PHILLIP PAYNTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at T0- peka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Voting-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in voting-machines in which I have provided automatic mechanisms adapted to accurately register the votes as they are cast, so as to keep a true account of the number of votes cast at an election without the use of printed ballots.

Among the several objects of' my invention are, first, to prevent fraudulent voting by providing certain safeguards of a mechanical nature; second, to protect the voter from espionage while giving him unrestricted choice as to candidates and parties; third, to provide certain improvements in construction and operation'whereby the general purposes of a voting machine are carried out more efficiently. WVith these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combinations of mechanisms and in the construction, arrangement, and adaptation of the various parts for service, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed. Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part'of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a votingmachine constructed in accordance with the principles of my invention and showing the complete machine set up in condition for service, a part of the boothbeing broken away in order to illustrate the front portion of the voting mechanism. Fig. 2 is aside elevation of the complete machine set up in condition for use and representing a part of the base or stand broken away and in section in order to show the mechanism for vertically adjusting the machine proper with relation to the base and for sustaining the machine proper in its raised operative position. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken through the machine from front to rear and in the plane indicated by the dotted line 3 3 of Fig. 9, that part of the machine between the first and last columns of voting mechanisms being omitted and the casing being broken away. Fig. 4 is a sectional plan view taken in the plane above the voting mechanisms and indicated by the dotted line 4 1 of Fig. 9. Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse section taken through an end portion of the machine in the plane of the dotted line 5 5 of Fig. 3 and looking in the direction of the arrow in order to show a part of the mechanism adapted for cumulative or multiple voting, said viewalso representing the resetting mechanism for the individual registers of the push-slides and showing the casing broken away horizontally. Fig. 6 is a vertical transverse section through the upper part of the machine in the plane of the dotted line 6 6 of Fig. 3 looking in the direction indicated by the arrow and showing the individual registers associated with three of the push-slides, two sets of locking devices, which will be hereinafter described, and a portion of the locking mechanisms for the individual push-slides. Fig. 7 is a sectional plan view illustrating in detail one of the individual registers for one of the plurality of push-slides, the plane of the section being indicated by dotted line 7 7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a detail cross-section on the line 8 8 of Fig. 7 illustrating the mutilated-gear devices that are employed in the individual registers for the separate push-slides. Fig. 9 is a vertical transverse section taken in the plane of the dotted line 9 9 of Fig. 3 looking in the direction of the arrow and showing a number of the push-slid es employed in one column, said view representing the slide-locking devices and the mechanism employed in connection with each slide to permit cumulative voting. Fig. 10 is an enlarged vertical section through one of the voting-register devices employed in the special-proposition or amendment column, said view being taken in the plane of the dotted line 1O 10 of Fig. 1. Fig. 11 is a vertical transverse sectional view through the opposite end portion of the machine from that shown by Fig. 5, the plane of the section being indicated by the dotted line 11 ll of Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow and representing in detail a number of devices which permit independent voting for individuals who are not the nominees of any political party. ,Fig. 12 is an enlarged vertical sectional elevation through the publicregister mechanism which surmounts the top of the machine-casing, said view representing the mechanism employed in the votingmachine as the means for operating the individual and aggregate public registers. Fig. 13 is a detail sectional plan view on the line 13 13 of Fig. 12, representing the shiftable devices whereby the male or female public registers may be controlled by the opening of the doors or screens forming the booth. Fig. 14 is an enlarged sectional view through the shifter-bar adapted to control the male or female counting mechanisms of the public register, said bar being actuated in one direction or the other by the opening and closing of the mens and womens doors of the booth. Fig. is an enlarged detail sectional view showing two of the push-slides and one form of detent mechanism therefor, the described form of detent mechanism being especially adapted for use in said mechanism with said push-slides when the machine is not intended to allow cumulative or multiple voting. Fig. 16 is a detail view showing means operated by the slide of the straight-ticket mechanism to restrain the primary locking mechanism from movement when a straight ticket for any one political party is voted, the plane of the section being indicated by the dotted line 16 16 of Fig. 4. Fig. 17 isa detail of the means for locking the thumb-piece 48 for the resetting device of the register. Fig. 18 is a detail of the take-up spool for one independent-voting device. Fig. 19 is a sectional elevation of one form of time-controlled mechanism whereby the multiple-locking mechanism of the machine may be automatically brought into service, and Fig. is a view in elevation of a part of the time-controlled mechanism shown by Fig. 19.

A designates the casing which incloses the operating mechanisms of my improved votingmachine. This casing is constructed, preferably, of metal in order to avoid the employment of wood and other perishable material and to produce a structure which will withstand the action of the weather and also exclude dust and moisture from the operating mechanisms. The casing is provided with a substantial top piece 1, and in one side portion of the casing is provided a partition 2, which forms a chamber 3, access to which is obtained by means of the hinged side 4, the latter arranged to close flush with the casing and hinged to the back thereof, as at 4. The front of the casing is divided by a series of vertical parting-strips 5 into a plurality of vertical columns, which are indicated by the reference-letters a b 0 d 6 g lb, each column having a panel 9 placed between two adjacent parting-strips 5 and preferably set in from the front of the casing, so as to leave a space or channel adapted to receive cards to contain the names of the candidates of the different political parties. The front of the machine-casing is divided, preferably, into eight columns, and of these columns those indicated at a b c CZ e f are adapted to receive the cards containing the names of the candidates for the six leading or prominent political parties, each column adapted to contain forty push-slides and the necessary number of individual registers and the other mechanisms associated with said push-slides. Of the forty push-slides provided in each of the six columns one is intended to be operated by the voter when it is desired to vote a straight ticket or, in other words, when the voter desires, by the operation of a single device, to cast his vote for all the candidates of any one political party, whereas the remaining thirtynine push-slides of the series in each column are intended to represent the individual candidates or nominees of one political party.

Of course the number of push-slides and the number of columns may be varied at will, and the described construction and arrangement is merely in exempliiication of the invention. The other column (indicated at {7 in Fig. 1) is adapted to be devoted to special propositions or amendments which it is desired to submit to the choice of the people, and in this column is provided a series of devices adapted for aye and nay voting. The column 9 contains a vertical series of panels (indicated at 10) and disposed in the set-in order described in relation to the panels 9 in the other columns (6 to f, inclusive. The other column it (indicated by Fig. 1) has a front panel 11, which is also set in so as to lie in the rear of the parting-strips 5, and this panel 11 of the column 71. (shown by Figs. 1, 3, and 11) is provided with a series of slots 12, said panel 11 having a number of transverse slots disposed in horizontal parallel order and in vertical series, the number of slots corresponding to the number of puslrbuttons in the other columns a to f, inclusive, of the machine-casing. The column it is equipped with a plurality of push-slides which control individually a plurality of paper tapes or bands, each of which is exposed for a part of its length through one of the slots 12 in a manner to permit the voter to inscribe or write the name of a person that does not appear in the list of the candidates of the parties in the columns a to f, inclusive, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the rear portion of the main compartment of the casing A is provided a vertical frame-plate 13, having a plurality of vertical flanges 13", and this frame-plate is provided with a very large number of guide-openings 14, adapted to register with other guide-openings 14, which are provided in the front of the casing or the parting-strips 5 therein, as shown more clearly by Fig. 3.

Bdesignates push-slides adapted for the individual candidates in the columns a to f, inelusive, and B is the straight-ticket pushslide forming one of the series of slides in each column a to f, inclusive. As hereinbefore indicated, I employ forty, more or less, of these slides B B in each of the six columns a to f, inclusive; but as all these series of slides in these six columns are essentially the same in construction and operation I have considered it necessary to only show a portion of one of the series of push-slides in one of the IIO columns, this particular illustration being embraced in Figs. 3, 6, and 9. Each slide B or B is arranged in ahorizontal position, so that it may move freely in two of the coincident openings 14 1 1, provided in the frame-plate 13 and the front of the casing, respectively. The push-slide is provided near its inner end with the stop pins or studs 15, that liein rear of the frame-plate and are adapted to prevent withdrawal of the slide in a forward direction. The front end of the slide is exposed beyond the front of the casing, and to this slide is secured the push-button 16, the same having a countersunk concave cavity 17 in its exposed face and said push button being attached firmly to the slide by means of the screw 18, as shown more clearly by Figs. 3 and 9. It is intended to arrange the slides B B so that the voter can insert the finger in the cavity 17 of one push-button in order to press one slide baekwardly into the casing, whereby the push-buttons can easily be operated individually and the voter is not liable to press any more than one slide.

in my improved machine Iemploy a multiplicity of individual registers, which occupy operative relation to the individual slides B, so as to be actuated individually thereby in order to keep a tally of the number of votes which are cast for the candidates or electors of the parties, and this machine also embodies a public-register mechanism which is exposed to view at all times of persons located outside of the booth or the machine, such public-register mechanism being divided into individualeounting mechanisms adapted to indicate the number of men and women who have entered the booth and another total-counting mech anism, which will register the total number of votes that have been cast.

I will now proceed to describe in detail one of the individual-register mechanisms that is adapted to be actuated by one of the slides B, reference being had more particularly to Figs. 3, 6, 7, and 8.

19 designates a series of horizontal arbors or spindles which are arranged across the front part of, the machine in the positions shown more clearly by Figs. 6 and 9. These arbors are disposed in the same vertical plane near the front of the machine, and they lie between or in alternate relation to the slides B, said arbors being supported in the machine frame or casing by any suitable means, so as to occupy stationary posit-ions therein. The arbors sustain parts of the registering mechanisms associated with the slides for the entire series of columns a toy, inclusive, and for the registering mechanisms and the paper-tape-feed mechanisms in the column it for the independent voting.

Each individual register mechanism has a series of sleeves 2O 21 22, which are loosely mounted on one arbor 19, so as to lie between one slide and the partition 2 or any two slides in adjacent columns of the machine. The

sleeve 20 (shown by Figs. 3 and 7) is provided with a wheel 23, having a single tooth. It is also provided with the units-wheel 24 and with a resetting-wheel 25, having eight teeth, said resetting-wheel being shown by Fig. 8 and forming one of the train of mutilated gears. The next sleeve 21 is provided with a gear 26, having ten teeth, a tens-wheel 27, and a mutilated gear-w heel 28, the latter also having eight teeth with a broken-out space, as indicated by Fig. 8. The last sleeve 22 is provided with a wheel 29, having ten teeth, a hundredths-wheel 30, and a resetting-wheel 31, having a series of eight teeth, thus forming another mutilated gear.

ln rear of the tier of arbors 19 is arranged another tier of horizontal arbors 19, the same corresponding in number to the arbors 19, arranged in the same vertical plane and in alternate relation to the slides B in each column. These arbors 19", constituting the second tier, are adapted to support certain parts of the register mechanisms connected with the different slides B in the different columns.

On each arbor 19 is loosely mounted asleeve 32, the same being disposed immediately in rear of the series of sleeves 2O 21 22 of each individual-register mechanism. This single sleeve 32 is fitted loosely on one of the arbors 19, so as to turn freely thereon, and the said sleeve 32 is provided with a gear-wheel 33, having ten teeth, the latter adapted to have intermeshing engagement with the single tooth on the wheel 23 of the sleeve 20, whereby the sleeve 32 may be turned one-tenth of a revolution at each complete turn of the wheel 23 on the sleeve 20. Said sleeve 20 is operated directly from and by the movement of one of the slides B, and to this end I provide the sleeve 20 with a ratchet-wheel 3 1, the same having a series of ten teeth and adapted to be engaged with a feed-pawl 35, said feed-pawl being pivoted or hung, as at 36, directly-to one of the slides B and provided with a toe-piece 37, the latter working between a pair of fixed stops 38, which are provided on the slide. (See Figs. 9 and 15.) The feed-pawl 35 is thus mounted on the slide B, so as to travel therewith and is capable of a limited movement on the forward movement of the slide, so as to ride idly over one of the teeth of the ratchet 34. The stop-pins 38 are adapted to coact with the toe-piece 37, so as to limit the oscillation of the pawl on its pivot 36, thus preventing the pawl from flying out of position and obviating the necessity of employing a spring to hold the pawl in its active position. It will be understood, therefore, that the inward movement of the slide B by the pressure of the voters finger against the thumb-piece 16 will carry the pawl with the slide and turn the ratchet 34: the distance of one tooth. The

rotation of the ratchet 3% will turn the sleeve 20 one-tenth of a revolution, and when the sleeve, its wheel 23, the units-wheel 2 1, and

the gear have made one complete revolution the single tooth of the wheel 23 Wlll actuate the gear 33 on the sleeve 32, so as to turn the latter one-tenth of a revolution. The sleeve 32 is provided with a resetting-wheel 39,'having ten teeth, and the gear-wheel 40, also having ten teeth, said gear-wheel 40 adapted to have intermeshing engagement with the ten-toothed gear 26 of the units-wheel 27 on the sleeve 21, whereby the tenths-wheel 27 will be rotated one-tenth of a revolution at each complete turn of the sleeve 20 and the units-wheel 24. The sleeve 32 is, furthermore, provided with a resetting-wheel 41, having a series of ten teeth, and with a wheel 42, having one tooth, said wheel 42 adapted to engage on each complete rotation of the sleeve 32 with the tentoothed wheel 29, which is fast with the sleeve 22, that carries the hundredths- Wheel 30, whereby said hundredths-wheel will be rotated one-tenth of a revolution at each complete turn of the sleeve 32, and the hundredths-wheel will make a complete revolution when the slide B shall have been operated one hundred times. The wheels 24, 27, and 30 of the individual register are inscribed with proper numerals from O to 9, in-

' elusive, and they are disposed in rear of the observation-openings 43, the latter being provided in the panel 9 of the casing.

The sleeve 32 is provided at one end with a notch 44, which is adapted to be engaged by a clutch-pin 45 on a resetting-sleeve 46, the latter being pinned or otherwise made fast to one of the slidable arbors 19, as shown by Fig. 3. This resetting-sleeve is provided with a gear 47, having ten teeth, and the sleeve passes through the partition 2 at the left-hand side of the machine-frame. The protruding end of the arbor 19 is provided with a thumbpiece 48, in which is formed a notch 49, adapted to receive a stud or pin 50 on an adjustable locking-arm 51. This locking-arm is fitted loosely on a protruding end of one of the arbors 19", as shown by Figs. 3, 5, and 7, and said locking-arm is provided with a forked extremity 52, the latter being indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 5 and adapted to straddle the notched part of the thumbpiece 48.

From this description it will be plain that the 1ocking-arn151 is loosely mounted on one of the arbors and that its forked end is engaged with the thumb-piece 48, said forked end of the locking-arm having a pin 50, adapted to enter the notch 49. The forked end of the locking-arm is disposed between the partition 2 and the thumb-piece 48, so as to hold the sleeve 46 in a position where its clutchpin 45 is free from engagement with the notch 44 of the sleeve 32 of the register mechanism. The engagement of the stud 50 on the lockingarm with the notch 49 of the thumb-piece prevents the sleeve 46 from turning on its axis, and the interposition of the forked end of the arm between the partition and the thumb-piece overcomes the inward sliding movement of the sleeve 46 toward the sleeve 32, whereby the sleeve 32 is adapted to turn freely in the operation of the register mechanism by the inward movement of the slide B.

After the election is over and it is desired to restore the individual registers to their initial positions the arm 51 is lifted so as to withdraw its stud 5O from the notch in the thumbpiece, and this thumb-piece may now be turned so as to rotate the sleeve, and these parts may then be shoved inward in order to bring the clutch-pin 45 into engagement with the notch 44 of the sleeve 32. The sleeve 32 may now be adjusted by a further inward movement of the sleeve 46, so that the gear-wheel 47 will mesh with the gear-wheel 31, the gear-wheel 41 will mesh with the gear-wheel 28, and the gear-wheel 39 will mesh with the gear-wheel 25. in view of the fact that the gear-wheels 31, 28, and 25 are all mutilated gears having only eight teeth with an intermediate gap or space, as shown by Fig. 8, it is evident that the indicating-wheels of the register mechanism may all be reset to zero by simply turning a thumb-piece 48 in the proper direction. The adjustment of this thumb-piece 48 turns the clutch-connected sleeves 46 32, which serve to rotate the gears 47, 41, and 39, and as these gears have meshing engagement with the mutilated gears 31, 28, and it is obvious that the indicating-wheels will be turned until the gears 47, 41, and 39 come opposite the gaps or spaces in said mutilated gears 31, 28, and 25, at which time the counting-wheels will cease to turn, and all of these counting-wheels will indicate zero.

Each slide B of the columns ct 7) e (Z (2 f 1 it is locked in its pushed-in position by a slidedog 52, the latter being hung at 53 on one flange 13 of the frame-plate 13. The dog has a stud 54, adapted to rest on the top edge of the slide B and to enter a notch I) in said slide, as indicated by the seventh slide B in Fig. 9. The dog remains in locked engagement with the slide as long as the voter remains in the booth, so that the voter cannot operate the same slide in order to repeat his vote. The dogs 52 are raised in rows by the trips 55, the latter being also disposed in horizontal rows and made fast with a rock-shaft 56, a series of which are mounted in the frame-plate 13. The trips 55 in each row lie immediately below the corresponding row of pivoted dogs 52, and said rock-shafts are provided with lingers 57, adapted to engage with pins 58 on the vertical trip-slides 59, one of which is disposed in each column (I to h, inclusive.

On the front corners ofthe casing are disposed the vertical door-shafts 6O 61, which support or carry the members 62 63 of the booth-doors. These members are provided with short arms 64, attached to the door-shafts, and each door member has a detachable wing 65. The doors 62 63 are equal in height to TIO pins 68.

the casing A, and when the doors are closed the wings extend on curved lines toward each other, and they close around the vertical column or post 66, the latter having a base 67 fastened to the floor in front of the machine. Each wing may be secured to its door by suitable detachable fasteners, such as the (See Fig. 2.) The door 62 at the left-hand side of the booth is adapted to be opened by women in entering or leaving the booth, whereas the door 63 at the right-hand side of the structure is opened by men entering or leaving the booth.

The door-shafts 6O 61 are provided near their upper ends with the spur-gears 69 70,

respectively, (see Figs. 5 and 14: and dotted lines in Fig. 6,) said gears being housed in suitable recesses 71, which are provided in the top 1 and are inclosed below the plates 72, which are suitably fastened to the top. The gears 69 70 have intermeshing engagement with other gears 73 74, which are also housed in the recesses 71 and are fastened to the short counter-shafts 75 76, the upperends of said counter-shafts being journaled in the top 1 and the plates 72, while the lower ends of the counter-shafts extend into the casing A and are mounted in the bracket-arms 77, the latter being fastened to the front of the casing, as shown by full and dotted lines in Figs. 5 and 6. The counter-shafts 75 76 are provided at their lower ends with the cams 78 79, (see dotted lines in Fig. 6 and full lines in Fig. 5,) and these cams have the active faces formed on the undersides thereof, as shown more clearly in Fig. 5. A horizontal door-actuated shaft 80 is journaled in the upper portion of the casing A between the series of releasing or trip bars 59 and the short vertical shafts 75 76, and this horizontal shaft is provided near its end portions with the forwardly-extending arms 81 82, (see full and dotted lines, respectively, in Figs. 6 and 5,) said arms being provided at their front ends with the roller-shoes 83, the latter arranged to ride against the active faces of the cams 78 79. The horizontal door-actuated shaft is provided with a series of rearwardly-extending arms 84:, which project from the shaft 80, so as to have overlapping relation to the vertical releasing or trip bars 59, and these arms 84 are provided with pins 85, arranged to loosely fit in the slots 86 of said trip-bars 59, whereby the pins 58 of said bars will lift the fingers 57 and turn register-operating stem, the same being.

mounted for vertical movement freely through the top 1 of the machine-casing A and through the register-casing 87. l prefer to make this stem in two parts or sections, which are provided with the abutting flanges 89, adapted to be secured detachably together by means of the screws 90, (see Fig. 12,) thus making provision for removing the upper part of the stem from the lower part thereof when the register 87 is to be detached from the machine-casing A. The upper member of the stem is slidably fitted in and guided by an arm 91, that projects from the front side of the casing, and said upper part of the stem is provided with a pair of pins 92 93, adapted to extend therefrom at right angles one to the other, as shown more clearly in Fig. 13. The pin 92 on the stem 88 is adapted to fit below a pawl-carrier-94, having a pawl 95, adapted to engage with a ratchet 96, which is loosely mounted on a shaft 97, said ratchet 96 forming a part of a femalevoters register, which may be of any suitable construction and is therefore not fully represented by the drawings. The other pin 93 is adapted in another. position of the stem 88 to fit beneath a pawl-carrier 98, the latter being loosely mounted on the shaft 97 and disposed on the opposite side of the stem 88 from the pawl-carrier 94. This pawl-carrier 98 sustains a pawl 99, which is adapted to engage with a ratchet-wheel 100, that is loosely fitted on the shaft 97 on the opposite side from the pawl 96, said ratchet 100 forming a part of a male-voters register, which, like the femalevoters register, may be of any suitable character, so that it is not considered necessary to fully illustrate the same herein. From this description it will be apparent that the spindle 88 must be capable of rocking or turning on a vertical axis in order to bring the pin 92 into operative relation to the pawl-and-ratchet mechanism of the female-voters register; but normally the stem 88 occupies a reversed position to that shown in Fig. 13, so that the pin 93 of the stem will be operatively connected with the pawl-carrier 98, so as to operate the pawl-and-ratchet mechanism of the malevoters register. An upward impulse is given to the stem 88 when either of the voting mechanisms, such as the individual push-slides B or the straight-ticket push-slides B or the push-slides associated with the independentvoting mechanism (shown in Fig. 11) is operated.

To provide for the axial turning of the stem 88 or the shifting thereof to bring the pins 92 93 into operative connection with either of the registers, I employ means which are actuated by the opening and closing mov ments of the doors. A horizontally-s1idable bar 101 is disposed in a transverse position between the cams 78 79 on the short vertical counter-shafts 75 76, said bar 101 extending across the front portion of the machine and suitably supported therein, so as to be capable of a free recipro bers comprising the bar 101.

catory movement. The end portions of the horizontal slidable bar are enlarged to form the shoes 102, (see Fig. 1 1,) and these shoes terminate very close to the cams 78 79, so that the rollers 103 10 1 (indicated by the full and dotted lines in Figs. 5 and 6 and the positions of which are shown in Fig. 14) will ride or bear against said shoes 102. It will be seen that when the door 62 is opened the gears 69 73 will turn the shaft 75 and actuate the cam 78 so as to impel the rod or bar 101 toward the right in Fig. 1 1; but when the other door 63 is opened by a man entering the booth the gears 74 will turn the shaft 76 and the cam 79, so as to make the roller 104: on said cam shove the bar 101 to the left, the bar being thus reciprocated by the opening and closing of the doors when male and female voters enter and leave the booth. This bar is provided with a stud or pin 105, (see Figs. 12 and 11,) which pin is loosely fitted in a slot 106, that is provided in a crank-arm 107, which is made fast to the reciprocatory and shiftable stem 88. It will be seen that when the bar 101 is moved in one direction the pin 105 will turn the crank-arm 107 so as to move the stem 88 on its axis, thus shifting the stem so as to bring one of its pins into an operative position to one register and out of an operative position to the other register.

The slidable bar 101 is constructed so that it will not become broken or operate to break any of the parts associated therewith in case both of the doors 62 63 of the booth are opened simultaneously. To accomplish this end, I make the bar 101 in sections which are slidably fitted in a connecting tube or sleeve 108, the latter serving as a housing for a coiled resistance-spring 109, the end portions of which bear against the adjacent ends of the mem- The end portions of the members forming said bar 101 are provided with pins 110, that are adapted to have a limited travel in short slots 111, which are provided in said connecting-tube 108. When one of the doors is opened, a member of the bar 101 is forced inward, so as to cause its pin 110 to travel in the slot of the sleeve 108 for a limited distance, thereby compressing the spring 109, the resistance of which causes the tube 108 to actuate the other member of the bar 101 and cause the bar as an entirety to be shifted endwise in one direction. If both of the doors are opened simultaneously, the two members of the bar are forced inward within the limits permitted by the slots 111, and they operate to compress the spring 109, the compression of this spring allowing the members of the bar to have the necessary travel for the doors to be opened the required extent without breaking the parts forming the bar 101, the rollers 103 104, or the cams 78 79.

The lower member of the stem 88 is provided with an enlarged foot 112, the same adapted to rest upon the convex upper face of a horizontal bar 113, which is disposed in the vertical plane of the stem 88 and in the upper front portion of the casing A. (See Fig. 12.) This bar 113 serves to connect a series of swinging arms 114, said series of arms being pivotally supported, as at 115, on the front of the casing A. The arms 114E extend rearwardly beyond the connecting-bar 113, and these arms are adapted to rest upon pins or studs 116, which are provided on a series of vertically-movableslides 117. Oneof these slides is disposed in operative relation to the series of push-slides in each column of the machine, and each slide lies adjacent to a vertical column of push-slides B B in close lateral relation thereto and preferably just in rear of the second tier of arbors, (indicated at 19.) Each vertically movable slide 117 is provided at proper intervals throughout its length with studs or pins 118, and with each stud of the slide 117 is engaged the hook-shaped arm 119 at one end of a slide-operating lever 120, the latter being fastened rigidly to one of the arbors 19. I employ a slide-operating lever 120 in connection with each push-slide B or B for the six columns of slides a to f, inclusive, and for the slides which are employed in the column g and for the slides which are used in connection with the independent voting-column it, so that it will be understood that a very large number of these slide-actuating levers 120 are employed. Each lover 120 is approximately triangular in shape. At

one corner or angle is the hook-shaped arm 119. At the opposite corner or angle is a similar hook-shaped arm 121, which is adapted to engage with a stud 122 on the pushslide, and at its remaining corner or angle the lever 120 is rigidly secured to one of the arbors 19, which thus, in effect, becomes a rock shaft, said arbor or rock-shaft 19" turning easily within the sleeves 32 of the individual registers, so as to avoid disturbing the latter. The levers 120 are disposed in horizontal rows on the arbors or rock-shafts 19. so as to lie practically between the horizontal rows of push-slides, and these levers 120 are furthermore disposed in vertical columns, so as to have operative relation to the series of studs or pins 118 on the register-operating slides 117. it will be understood that when one of the push-slides B or B or the push-slides of the special or independent voting columns is forced inwardly the stud 122 of the slide will operate against the arm 121 of the lever, thereby turning the lever associated with the individual slide and rocking the entire series of levers 120, which are attached to the arbor or shaft 19". These series of levers on the particular shaft or arbor which is operated by the inward movement of a particular pushslide make the arms 119 engage with the studs 118 on the series of register-opcrating slides 117, thereby raising the latter and the studs 116, which in turn lift the series of arms 11 1 and the connecting-bar 113, so as to impart an upward movement to the stem 88 and actuate the register mechanism, nor can the inward movement of any other push-slide in the same horizontal row or plane have any effect on the series of vertically-movable register-actuating slides 117, because said slides 117 and the levers 120 are locked in their raised active positions by engagement with the stud 122 on the push slide which is shoved inward or retracted. When the locking-dog 52 is released from engagement with the notch b in the push-slide, owing to the fact that the voter in leaving the booth opens the door, so as to raise the trip-bar 59 through the described train of connections, the weight of the lifted registenactuating slides 117, acting against the levers 120, and the pin or stud 122 on the shoved-in push-slide serves to throw the push-slide in a forward direction and to return it to its normal position, thus utilizing the weight or gravity of the lifted slides 117 as the means for returning the pushslides to their normal positions and dispensing with springs or separate devices to accomplish the desired projection of the push-slides after they shall have been used in casting the votes.

The register mechanism 87is also equipped with a total-vote-counting device, a part of which is shown by Fig. 12, the same having a shaft 123, on which is a wheel 12 1 and a ratchet 125, said wheel 12 1 meshing with another register-wheel 126 on a shaft 127. (See Fig. 12.) Loosely mounted on theshaft 123 of the total-counting mechanism is a pawlearrier 128, having a pawl 129, which engages with the ratchet 125, and beneath this pawl-carrier is operatively arranged a quadrant-shaped finger 130, the latter arranged to always occupy an operative relation to the pawl-carrier 128 in either of the shifted positions of the stem 88. This quadrantal finger 130 is also indicated in Fig. 13, while a third register-mechanism is operated in harmony with either of the two register mechanisms.

A straight-ticketvoting slide B is provided in connection with each column a to f, inclusive, and these slides B are disposed at the heads of the vertical columns of slides B. Each slide B is similar in construction to the slides B, in that it is provided with a notch Z) near its inner end, adapted for engagement with one of the dogs 52, and its outer exposed end is provided with a push-button 16," although this push-button may be omitted from each slide B because I prefer to employ a straight-ticket-voting slide B, one of said levers being employed in connection with each slide B.

slides B in the columns a to f, inclusive, are mounted in exposed positions at the upper front portion of the caslng A, said levers bereach of the voter.

The levers 131 for the series of six 1 ing fulcrumed, as at 132, reference being had to Fig. 9. per portion with an ofi'standing shank, to which is connected a pendant 133 by means of the pivot .13 1, said pendant having alinob 135, the entire pendant being outside of the machine-casing, so as to be within convenient The lever 131 is furthermore provided with two hook-shaped arms 136 137, which are disposed on opposite sides of the vertical plane of the fulcrum 132, the former of said arms 136 being engaged with a stud 138, which is made fast to the straightvoting push-slide B, whereby a downward pull on the pendant 133 will turn the lever 131 and make its arm 136 push rearwardly on the pin 138, and thereby force the slide B rearwardly into the casing A, so that the proper dog 52 will engage with the notch B in said slide. The other arm 139 of each lever 131 is arranged to engage with a stud 1 10, which is provided on each of a series of vertical slides 1 11 for the operation of the entire column of individual registers which are associated with the column of push-slides, of which the push-slide B forms one of aseries. Each slide 1 11 is provided with a series of slots 1 12, so as to enable the slide 1411 to fit loosely to the series of arbors 19, each slide 141 extending the full depth'of the tier of arbors 19 and being movable in a vertical direction with relation thereto. The tier of arbors 19 serve to support the series of slides 1 11, and each slide carries a series of feedpawls 1 13, the said pawls being arranged to engage with a vertical column of ratchets 1 1 1, which are provided on the sleeves 20 of the individual registers associated with the pushslides, (see Figs. 3 and and thus turn the said ratchets when the lever 131 raises the slide 1 11. It follows that the operation of the lever 131 by a voter will serve toindicate that a straight vote has been cast for one of the political parties. The pushing in of the slide B will actuate the proper registers in case 87 through its associated lever 120. Of course theinward movement of the straightticket slide B brings into play the dog 52, which serves to lock the slide in its inmost position, thus preventing the voter from repeating his vote by again operating the slide B. Vhen the voter leaves the booth, the dog is released by the action of the tripping mechanism under control of one of the booth-doors, and the weight of the bars 117 returns the slide B to its projected position.

To prevent a voter operating any straight- 1 ticket slide or any of the individual-candidate separate lever 131 for the actuation of the slides, I provide the slides B with two notches 1&7 and 1 17. shaft 1 15, disposed in the same vertical plane as shafts 19, has rigidly secu ed to it a series of pawls 146, one over each slide B. Each slide 117 carries a pin 148, disposed under a tailpiece of the pawl 1&6 of that column.

Each lever is provided at its up- (See Fig. 12.) A horizontal.

l Vhen the slides 117 are raised by the pushing in of the slides B or B, the front end of the pawls will be tipped downward in one of the notches of the slides B. If aslide B is pushed in, its pawl 1416 will enter the notch 1 17. The pawls 1416 of the other slides B will enter the notches 1 17, thus locking out those slides. Thus when a slide B is operated, all of the slides B are locked out.

In addition to the series locking mechanism for the straight-ticket slides just described 1 employ a multiple locking mechanism adapted to be operated by the inward movement of either straight-ticket slide B for the purpose of preventing either of the individual pushslides B from operation simultaneous with or subsequent to one of the straight-ticket slides B by the voter temporarily occupying the booth.

A column of horizontal locking-shafts 150 is disposed within the machine-casing A, said column of shafts lying between the series of rock-shafts 56 and the tier of arbors or rockshafts 19. The locking shafts 150 correspond in number to the number of push-slides in each column, and said locking-shafts are journaled in suitable bearings provided in the machine. These locking-shafts extend across all the columns a to 7, inclusive, and the locking-shafts are provided with a series of locking-wheels 151, which are shown more clearly by Fig. 6. These lockingwheels are provided with teeth disposed at regular intervals to provide spaces adapted to receive the locking-studs 152, which are provided on the locking-bars 153; but normally these lockingbars 153 are lowered, so that ample clearance is provided between the studs 152 and the path of the teeth on the locking-wheels 151. One series of locking-wheels 151 and one of the studded locking-bars 153 are provided for each column of push-slides B B and for the column of push-slides in the independent-voters column it. 'Each locking-slide 153 is adapted to be raised by operative connections with one of the straight-ticket slides B, and this train of connections is formed by a rock-shaft 15 1, a series of fingers 155, and a series of pushstuds 156, (see Fig. 16,) said rock-shaft 15 1 being equipped with a series of lifting-arms 157, which engage with studs 158 on the locking-slides 153. The rock-shaft 154 is disposed above and in the vertical plane of the column of locking-shafts 150, and the lifting-arms 157 of this rock-shaft are curved, so as to fit snugly beneath and remain in engagement with the studs 158 on the locking-slides. The studs 156 on the straight-ticket slides B are placed so that they will normally be free from engagement with the fingers 155, the latter be ing disposed in the path of said studs 156. On the inward movement of either push-slide B the stud 156 will engage with one finger 155, and this finger will turn the rock-shaft 15 1, so as to make the series of lifting-arms 157 raise the entire series of locking-slides 153 so as to bring the studs 152 thereof into engagement with all the locl ingwheels 151 associ ated with the columns a to f, inclusive, and [1 whereby the inward movement of one straight-ticket slide will operate the multiple locking mechanism, so as to prevent all of the individual push-slides in the columns a to f, inclusive, and it from being pushed in when the voter occupies the booth. On the return of the pusl1slide B to its projected position the pin 156 of that slide will be withdrawn from the finger 155, and the weight of the series of locking-bars 153 will return them to their normal positions, thereby withdrawing the studs 152 from engagement with the locking-wheels 151.

The mechanism operated by the door 62 to look all the voting-slides except those which partially-qua]ified voters, such as women, are entitled to operate will now be explained. (See Figs. 3, 6, and 1 1.)

It will be noted that the studded bars 153 of the multiple locking mechanism are disposed on one side of the column of lockingshafts 150, and on the opposite side of this column of locking-shafts 1 provide the series of arbitrary locking-slides 159, one of which is provided for each of the series of lockingwheels 151 and for each of the voters column of slides. Each arbitrary locking-slide 159 is provided with a series of apertures 160, in which may be inserted the removable studs 161, the latter adapted to enter the spaces in the locking-wheels 151. It is evident thatany desired number of these insertiblc pins 161 may be connected to each of the arbitrary locking-slides 159 in order to engage with any desired number of the locking-wheels 151, thus preventing the locking-wheels 151 of certain candidates push-slides B from being operated when the female voter enters the booth; but it is obvious that the omission of this stud 161 from certain places on certain slides will allow the corresponding number of lockingwheels 151 to remain free, whereby the woman voter can vote for that particular candidate or candidates. The arbitrary locking-slides 159 are provided with lifting-studs 162, (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 6,) and with these lifting-studs 162 are engaged the lifting-fingers 163 on the series of rock-shafts 164:. These rock-shafts are disposed in a horizontal row below the shaft and the slide 101, one of said rock-shafts 164: being provided for one column of voters slides in each of the columns a, a, (Z, 0,1", and h.

The horizontal rock-shafts 164: are disposed to extend from front to rear of the machine and at right angles to the other columns of rock-shafts and arbors, and these shafts 161 are provided with the upstanding arms 165, which are disposed in the path of rem'wardlyextending tappets 166. (See Fig. 11-.) One of the tappets 166 is provided on the doorarm 165 on one rock-shaft 164:, and thus a series of these tappets 166 are provided in spaced order on the door-operated slide 101, whereby the movement of the slide 101 toward the right in Fig. 14 by the opening movement of the womens door 62 of the booth will make the tappets 166 ride against the series of arms 165, so as to simultaneously turn all of the rock-shafts 164, and these rockshafts will operate the lifting-arms 163, which, acting on the studs 162, will raise the series of arbitrary locking-bars 159, so as to move the insertible pins 161 into engagement with the proper number of locking-Wheels 151, so as to lock the individual candidates pushslides B except those push-slides of the candidates for whom the women are entitled to vote.

I will now proceed to describe the cumulative or multiple voting mechanism, which may be used on certain portions of the machine to allow each voter to register more than one votethat is, to enable the voter to split or divide his vote in order to vote for two or three candidates in the same or in different political parties for the same office. Certain States permit each party to nominate two or three candidates for each office, and the laws of the States allow the split voting to be done--as, for instance, the State of Kansas allows the voters to divide their votes for such offic'es as justices of the peace and constables.

The locking-shafts 150, which extend transversely across the middle portion of the machine, are provided with a number of columns of locking-sectors 167, which are made fast with said shafts 150 and are provided with two ormore ratchet-teeth. These lockingsectors are disposed in vertical columns corresponding in number to the slides B B and to the slides of the independent-voting mechanism hereinafter described, whereby the locking-sectors are arranged in horizontal rows below the individual slides B. Each locking-sector is provided with a stud 168, which is adapted to enter one or the other of the notches b if, which are provided in the lower edge of each slide B B, reference being had more particularly to Figs. 9 and 11. The locking-sectors are made fast with the locking-shafts 150, and each sector is adapted to be turned one, two, or more teeth by the action of a feed-pawl 169, which is mounted on each slide B B, so as to move therewith. It will be understood that each slide in each column is equipped with one feed-pawl, the same being pivoted to the slide, as indicated at 170, and this pawl is provided with an extension 171, arranged to play between the stoppins 172, whereby the pawl is free to turn a limited distance on the push-slide, so thatit cannot fly out of operative relation to the locking-sector. Each feed-pawl 169 is mounted on the push-slide, so as to always occupy an operative relation to one locking-sector; but normally the pawl is held free from the teeth of the locking-sector by its rearward extensipn 171 engaging with one of the stop-pins 172,- said pawl occupying the disengaged position relative to the locking-sector when the push-slide is in its forward or projected position. The inward movement of one push-slide fora certain candidate in one row operates to bring the proper feed-pawl 169 into engagement with one locking-sector, and thesector is turned the distance of one tooth by such inward movement of the feed-pawl, so as to impart one step to the rotation of the locking shaft 150, which has operative relation to the locking-sectors and feed-pawls of all the pushslides in that horizontal row. The extent or degree of turning movement which may be given to the locking-shafts 150 by the successive operation of two or more push-slides in one horizontal row when the voter splits or (livides his vote for two or more candidates in different political parties for the same oflice is determined by the adjustment of a detent mechanism which forms a part of the cumulative or multiple voting mechanism, such detent mechanism being represented more clearly by Figs. 3 and 5.

To enable others to understand the detent or controlling devices for the cumulative or multiple voting mechanism, 1 will take an example of one adjustment by which a voter can vote for three candidates in the same or in different political parties for the same oflice, and we will assume that the names of these three candidates are in adjacent horizontal rows, so that the locking-shafts for the three candidates can conveniently be designated as 150, 1550 and 150 in Fig. 5. The left-hand end of the series of shafts 150, of which the shafts 150*, 150", and 150 form three shafts of said series, are extended through the partition 2, so as to terminate within the compartment 3. On the shaft 150 is secured a gear-pinion 173, which has intermeshing engagement with a gearpinion 17 1, that is idly mounted on a stub-shaft 175, said intermediate gear-pinion 17 1 having a ratchet 17 6 made fast therewith. This intermediate gear 174C has intermeshing engagement with another gear 177,which is made fast with the projecting end of the locking-shaft 150, and the gear 177 has intermeshing relation to another gear 178, which is provided on another stub-shaft 179. Finally, this gear 178 meshes with another gear 180, which is made fast to the projecting end of the locking-shaft 150. The intermediate gears 174: and 178 do not intermesh one with the other, nor do the train of gears 178, 177, and 180 intermesh one with the other; but they have engagement only through the intermediate idle gears 174 178. The stub-shafts 175 and 179 for the intermediate idle gears are properly mounted on or at- 

